Microsoft's Ethical Guidelines

Posted by kdawson on Monday October 13, 2008 @09:30PM from the oxy-meet-moron dept.

hankwang writes "Did you know that Microsoft has ethical guidelines? It's good to know that 'Microsoft did not make any payments to foreign government officials' while lobbying for OOXML, and that 'Microsoft conducts its business in compliance with laws designed to promote fair competition' every time they suppressed competitors. In their Corporate Citizenship section, they discuss how the customer-focused approach creates products that work well with those of competitors and open-source solutions. So all the reverse-engineering by Samba and OpenOffice.org developers wasn't really necessary."

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Re:Ethics by dnoyeb · 2008-10-14 00:33 · Score: 5, Informative

Whats funny is that at least what is posted is not MS ethics. Those are Federal laws. They can call them ethics if they want, but not paying off foreign officials is not an ethical question. Its a legal one.
Anything to do with gaining favor from a foreign government is strictly illegal. (except for attempts to speed up what is the natural process)